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Answer the questions listed below using rich detail and original, creative, and insightful analysis.
Present your answers to the questions using well organized and cohesive responses. Strong quotes and examples from the literature should be properly introduced and formatted accurately. The answers should present rich analysis and original interpretations. You are required to make creative connections.
Directions:
After you have thoroughly read the selected quotes from Emerson's "Self Reliance," compare and contrast his ideas about what it means to be a fully functioning and educated human being with the writers and historical figures listed below. You are expected to make very creative connections and comparisons and contrasts. You are also expected to make connections based on the actual literature written by these writers and not the powerpoint slides. Please have these author's works in front of you and go through them to remind yourselves of important details from their lives.
1. Olaudah Equiano
2. Jonathan Edwards
3. Edgar All Poe
Do this for the final exam:
More specifically, in your responses for the final exam, I would like for you to answer the following questions:
1. Emerson and Olaudah Equiano
How do Emerson's ideals on education and the fully functioning "man" compare and contrast with Olaudah's ideas and experiences about education and what it means to be fully functioning?
2. Emerson and Jonathan Edwards
How does Jonathan Edwards differ from Olaudah Equiano? What were his ideals about being a proper and educated human being? How do Jonathan Edwards' ideas compare and or contrast with Emerson's ideas?
3. Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe
Next, how does Edgar Allan Poe's ideas differ from Edwards' ideas Based on "House of Fall of Usher," what could have been Poe's ideals about being a proper and educated human being? How do Poe's ideas compare and contrast with Emerson's ideas?
4. Today's World and American Writers and Thinkers
A few years ago, a few people suggested that that the United States is becoming anti-intellectual and or not as comfortable with learning and knowledge. From your own observations, is this true?
Does America need Olaudah Equiano? Jonathan Edwards? Edgar Allan Poe? Emerson? Is there a place for Emerson in our world? In other words, are his words still significant?.
Attachment:- Emerson quotes from Self Reliance Canvas.rar
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